This book presents the findings from original research about court interpreting in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences from a linguistic perspective.
Polish as a Heritage Language Around the World provides a timely insight into Polish diaspora communities around the world and their endeavours in heritage language maintenance and education.
This book seeks to contribute to the critical applied linguistics by investigating the dynamic role of English on social media, focusing on EFL university students in East Asia - Mongolia and Japan.
English Medium Instruction (EMI) refers to the use of the English language to teach academic subjects where first language of the majority of the population is not English.
Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings.
Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.
Äsops Fabeln, auch Äsopika genannt, sind eine Sammlung von Fabeln, die Äsop zugeschrieben werden, einem Sklaven und Geschichtenerzähler, der zwischen 620 und 564 v.
Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.
This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their wide range of needs, worries, motivations, and abilities.
This fully updated new edition provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges that English language learners (ELLs), also known as English Learners (ELs), face, as well as the ways in which educators might address them in the social studies classroom.
This book addresses increasingly diverse language learning trajectories in a modern, globalized world, specifically outside of formal classroom situations and with respect to second and additional language practices.
Fifty Years of Kiswahili in Kenya is a collection of articles that were presented at an international Kiswahili conference organized by the National Kiswahili Association (CHAKITA) Kenya in 2013, which was held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA).
Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon is the first volume of a book series of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) of the University of Buea.
El libro desarrolla la experiencia del programa Aulas digitales en el Nivel Inicial, implementado en todos los jardines de infantes del partido de La Matanza, provincia de Buenos Aires.
Definir la expresión corporal, ubicarla en el contexto de la educación sistematizada, destacar su importancia para la actividad específica del jardín de infantes y ofrecer un proyecto de unidad didáctica que pueda servir como modelo, son los objetivos que alcanza acabadamente la presente obra.
Un grupo de docentes socializa aquí sus experiencias y propuestas didácticas que tienen como eje la exploración e implementación de las Tecnologías de Información y la Comunicación, concibiéndolas de manera transversal a los diferentes campos del conocimiento, innovando en las prácticas.
This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.
This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally.
This book, one of the few English language publications on indigenous languages spoken in East Africa, highlights theoretical contributions on understudied East Cushitic languages, based on extensive data.
Los caminos que se recorren en esta obra son diversos, pero siempre convergen en conceptos centrales de la experiencia universitaria en un país que se ha reconocido como multicultural y plurilingüe.
Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Children and Families explores how the philosophy, principles, and practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants and refugees.
This book reports the results of an extensive study of slips of the tongue produced by foreign language (L2) learners at different levels of proficiency.
Changing socio-political landscapes, the dynamics of ‘glocalisation’, among other factors, are spawning new policy attitudes towards multilingualism, and again putting language planning (LP) on the map – in a manner reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s.
In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed.
This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact.
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account.
A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one language into another.
This volume gives an up-to-date account of various situations of language contact and multilingualism in Europe especially from a historical point of view.
